Book description
Dark urban legends that will make you scream out loud, because even
though you don't want to believe it, you know these stories might have
happened for real. Roy Apps is the author of fifty children's books,
including The Twitches, Time Spinner and the hugely popular How To
Handle series for Scholastic. Most recently he has written The Fang Gang
series for Bloomsbury and the Crime Files series for Franklin Watts. His
novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons won The Writers' Guild
Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Awards. It
is now a successful musical. Roy writes extensively for radio, theatre
and TV. In 2001 he was awarded a BAFTA for his children's TV work, which
includes Byker Grove, The Ghost Hunter and Barmy Aunt Boomerang. Roy
visits schools, libraries and bookshops to read from his books and to
share the secrets of The Shed in Your Head . He runs Writing Projects
for all ages and over the last few years has helped young and new
writers make books, stage plays, films, performance poetry and most
recently, an opera.
